Thanks for you answer >I'm guessing what you mean by "will not appear": the web server doesn't show >it. Yes the Webserver Apache will not present the symbolic link folder
>My first hunch would be that the web server can't read (or list) any of the >components of the file pointed to by the symlink. Yes, in the meantime I am also of the opinion, but how can I change this, because the folder structure is given and I cannot make a right change here. Or should I make a copy of the data at the end of the process? >Could you do ls -l to /var/lib/rancid, /var/lib/rancid/routers and so on until >.../c3560? Every file in this path "-R rancid:randic /var/lib/rancid" >Besides: what does Apache's error log say (best just after you tried to access >the resource in question). AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/html/cvsweb/configs /var/www/html/cvsweb# ls -la drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 27 21:21 . drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Apr 27 21:27 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 32 Apr 27 20:49 configs -> /var/lib/rancid/routers/configs/